Friday, January 14, 2005

2004 Games Report

Summary

Last Year's Hits

Two games from last years top games, Amun Re andRoboRally, didn't get played at all in 2004. Amun Re because of a bitof burn out and RoboRally because of insufficient opportunity.

Five games got played, but fell out of the top ten. "6 nimmt!" only fell to #18 while Puerto Rico, Attika, Finstere Flure, and Balloon Cup fell more substantially. Most of these fell due to some amount of burnout and will hopefully get picked up again soon.

Three games, Crokinole, Electronic Catchprase and Princes of Florence retained spots in the top ten.

Year to year comparison

If you want to maintain a high rate of playing games and get a healthy amount of sleep, I recommend against having a baby. In every other regard, I highly recommend it.This years gaming dropped substantially along all axes except number of different people.

Personal

Professional

I am a Engineering Director at Google. My team and I work on Search.

Previously, I was the CTO at an 802.11 location and security company, Newbury Networks in Boston. In June, 1999 I received my Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab. I graduated from MIT (undergraduate) in June, 1997, in physics. Prior to that I was CTO of net.Genesis from 1994 to 1996.